'Narco Cultura' Film By Shaul Schwarz Exposes Drug Culture, Narcocorridos In Mexico
David Iaconangelo
Nov 12, 2013
Latin Times
For much of "Narco Cultura", photojournalist Shaul Schwartz's distressing new documentary about narcocorrido music and cartel violence in Mexico's northern states, Edgar Quintero looks like he's having a blast. The Los Angeles-based singer gulps down Modelos and marijuana smoke; poses with pistols and bazookas; leads leopard-print-clad blondes to his group's hotel room; and when it comes time to perform his songs -- rollicking, brassy, cheerfully depraved odes to the drug-trafficking life and sometimes to specific, real-life cartel members - he swoops onto stages wearing a coat embroidered with the name of his band, the BuKnas ("boo-kah-nahs"), and belts them out. Fans in places as far away as North Carolina, mostly young people either from Mexico or of Mexican descent, belt them right back at him...
Update: The Narcocultura